The idea of the chickens with the multiple breasts and thighs came from an urban legend that some fast-food places had developed chickens with four thighs. It wasn't true, but it is a suggestive rumor.

The biggest debt is always the government debt; it's always debt that government has run up on your behalf.

Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drink it straight. And God is the same. Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.